Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Last month, I said that the biggest challenge facing traditional enterprises seeking to implement Hadoop applications is not a lack of suitable tools, but a shortage of skilled personnel knowledgeable in implementing the technology into corporate IT environments (see "Talent Shor

In olden days, folks made a distinction between labor and work. Men and women did work. Work served both heaven and earth; ennobling workers, carrying on the culture, and pleasing God. Brutes (sometimes human) did labor, which required only force.

Mainstream organizations don't want to just use Hadoop in a standalone manner. They want to integrate the insights discovered with Hadoop into their data warehousing and BI environments.

Business resilience has become increasingly important in the wake of an unusual period of natural disasters around the globe, and new technologies and organizational models have yielded improved capabilities to move forward in the face of any disaster.

The good news for mainstream organizations that want to conduct Big Data analysis using Hadoop is that a lack of comprehensive, supported environments no longer remains the most significant barrier to adoption.

Creating an evolutionary process in development has been seen as a perspective belonging more to the philosophical and spiritual realms than to the so-called scientific realm. An evolutionary approach, however, provides for sustainability of growth.

Consumerization is the impetus for a renewal of IT. BYOD will spur creativity, increase agility, and bring new benefits to business.

Consumerization will obliterate the hard-won efficiencies of standards and bring chaos to downsized IT operations areas. BYOD is the new technical Tower of Babel.